An interdisciplinary composer, Mattia Maurée (b. 1987) makes art that explores perception, bodies, sensation, and resilience. Disconnection from our embodied experience of each other and our environment causes suffering. Music has a unique ability to address this. Rather than cajole the audience into a specific experience, Mattia seeks to awaken strong physical sensations that cannot be ignored. Their scores in critically acclaimed films have played in fifteen countries, and Thorns won Best Score Short at GenreBlast in 2020. They were a finalist in the Mass Cultural Council 2019 Artistic Fellowships Program in music composition. In the summer of 2021 they had their first international non-film premiere during the Alba Composition Festival in Italy, with Transient Canvas. Mattia has always loved words. Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola selected their poems for installation in Boston City Hall as part of the 2019, 2020, and 2021 Mayor's Poetry Program. They developed their first libretto with Guerilla Opera in 2021. In March 2022, their poem "Pre-Abortion Rite" was published in Arc Poetry Magazine. Mattia received a Masters of Music in Composition at New England Conservatory, and a Bachelors of Music from St. Olaf College. John Heiss called their music "bold, adventurous, powerful and elegant."